Born Adam Spiegel, October 22, 1969, Spike Jonze began his career making skate videos before moving on to music video. He notably directed the popular 1999 film Being John Malkovich, as well as the 2002 film Adaptation. He co-created the popular tv series Jackass.
Classic characteristics of Spike Jonze videos include a guerilla filmmaker style, and a lot of pop culture referencing.
Sure Shot - The Beastie Boys.
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As far as genre is concerned, this can be described as "Informed" hip hop. While it retains most of the characteristics of hip hop, it has a self aware, self mocking feel.
In terms of goodwins 6:
1) The video demonstrates the combination of performance/concept base common in hip hop.
2) A lot of Beastie Boys videos flash photo's up to match the lyrics, as in this one.
3)The entire video uses cuts on the beat to relate back to the music.
4) A lot of close ups with the Artists holding the camera are used. The intentionally low quality, on location filming are standard of a Beastie Boys video. The photo's flashing up are also common for The Beastie Boys.
5) Often in the video the artists speak directly in the camera to address the audience.
6) There are a few intertextual references in the video. Within the casino (A segment they had no permission to film, shot from a hidden camera in a briefcase), the tuxedo's are reminiscent of a James Bond film or an Oceans 11-style gangster movie. The white space-age style pods are clearly a Star Wars reference.
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good first up post, jo. if you can't find an embed tag then use a link to the video. see below
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5GXj1jwb1U
that way at least your readers can hyperlink to it rather than going to youtube and searching it.
any elements of jonze you plan to use in your video?